Maureen Heppell is a female former international
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player from
England
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.
Table tennis career
She represented England at the
1967 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1967 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Johanneshovs Isstadion in Stockholm from April 11 to April 21, 1967.
During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese sports professionals were denounced as 'Sprouts of Revisionism' and were de ...
in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with
Karenza Smith and
Mary Shannon-Wright.
Personal life
Her father Len Heppell (a ballroom dancer) helped train
Pop Robson
Bryan Stanley Robson, better known as Pop Robson (born 11 November 1945) is an English former footballer who played as a centre-forward. He played for Newcastle United, West Ham United, Sunderland, Chelsea and Carlisle United, and scored 265 ...
after Robson had met Maureen on the table tennis circuit. Len went on to help many leading football players and managers and Maureen married Robson.
See also
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References
English female table tennis players
1949 births
Living people
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